Padraig Harrington Now In Doubt For PGA After Injuring Knee Playing Tennis
What is it about professional golfers getting injured playing other sports?
An injury playing tennis with his kids now has fellow PGA Champion Padraig Harrington joining Rory McIlroy as doubtful to tee up next week at Whistling Straits.
In fact, Harrington will be lucky to take his place in the closing weekend rounds of the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational here in Akron, Ohio as he battles with the injury sustained two weeks ago.
Harrington is clearly in discomfort walking with his right leg ...
Paul Casey – In Italy, On A Boat, Then Cycling, & Drinking Lots Of Red Wine.
Paul Casey clearly had the best preparation of anyone coming into this week’s WGC – Bridgestone Invitational.
Casey did not touch a golf club since missing the cut by a stroke in The Open Championship and then returned to shoot an impressive two under par 68 and to be lying just three shots from the lead after round one of the $US 9.25m event
And with his wife, Pollyana and young child the Casey family headed off to Italy.
“I was on a boat on Lake Gara, and then went cycling up in ...
Graeme McDowell Alludes To Skipping 2016 Bridgestone For French Open.
The newly released 2015/16 PGA Tour schedule looks to have a first casualty in Graeme McDowell.
McDowell indicated he is more than likely to contest the 2016 French Open title, an event he captured in both 2013 and 2014, rather than tee-up in the 2016 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational.
You see, the 2016 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational is being moved next year to accommodate the Olympic Games and instead of being staged normally after The Open Championship the $9.25m event will be held next ...
McDowell Declares He Would Choose Ryder Cup Ahead Of OIympic Games.
Graeme McDowell posted one of his lowest scores all season and then confessed if push came to shove he is more focussed on qualifying for the 2016 Ryder Cup than compete in the Olympics
And Ireland’s current third highest world ranked player, and with the top-two to go to Rio de Janeiro, says he is not about to get into a conflict with fellow Irishman Shane Lowry and presently Ireland’s second highest on the World Rankings in figthing to join World No. 1 Rory McIlroy in Brazil.
“It’s going ...
Will He Or Won’t He? Rory McIlroy PGA Championship Guessing Game Continues.
Will he or won’t he?
That is golf’s burning question as Rory McIlroy leaves us wondering if he will be fit enough to tee-up a week from today in the defence of his PGA Championship crown.
Yesterday, McIlroy posted a video to Instagram of a workout while putting all of his weight on his injured left ankle — an injury he suffered while playing soccer in early July that resulted in a total rupture of a ligament in his ankle.
The guessing game continues given not long after posting ...
Paul McGinley Sings The Praise Of Bridgestone Debutant Marc Warren.
Victorious Gleneagles Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley is singing the praise of Scotland’s Marc Warren ahead of the Scot making his WGC – Bridgestone Invitational debut.
McGinley, who contested nine Bridgestone Invitational events in succession from 2000 to 2008, is in Ohio this week working with SKY Sports.
He said: “Marc’s first appearance in this event is very well deserved and he’s been making great progress these last few years.
“He’s also, as we saw last week in Scotland, ...
Shane Lowry To Use Fortnight In States To Cement Top-50 World Ranking.
Ireland’s Shane Lowry will use this fortnight of competition in the States to finally establish himself well inside the top-50 on the World Rankings.
Lowry has been top-50 ranking ‘bubble’ since last November when he moved to 47th, and into the top-50 for a first occasion in his career following his fifth place in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.
The Bank of Ireland backed pro then jumped to a career high of 40th in sharing seventh place in the Farmers Insurance Open but then ...
